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Picturing Freedom
An exhibit about Harriet Tubman
and Black Freedom in the Civil War |
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On June 2, 1863, 1863, Harriet Tubman and her group of spies, scouts, and pilots guided 3 paddle-wheel steamboats with a regiment of 300 Black soldiers up the Combahee River, under the full moon, and freed 750 enslaved people from the rice fields there. |
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The exhibit tells about the daring raid that changed the course of the Civil War, its legacy that has shaped our world today, and the continuing inspiration of Harriet Tubman.
The rice industry which shaped these lands was hacked by hand from treacherous cypress swamps which have now become priceless fresh water wetlands. |
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On view at the Gibbes Musuem in Charleston, South Carolina until October 5, 2025 |
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This is a multi-media exhibit with contemporary photographs and paintings and quilts. The large video installations include this eye-opening dialog between freed man and plantation owner. |
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We are pleased by the incredible press the exhibit has received, including this piece from ABC and a wonderful spread in Smithsonian Magazine! |
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Inspired by Edda Fields-Black's Pulitzer-Prize winning book
Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom during the Civil War
Through exhaustive research she
has personified the individuals who were enslaved in the South Carolina Low-Country. |
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The exhibit, developed in partnership with Professor Edda Fields-Black, Ph.D., winner of the Pulitzer Prize, sheds new light on the history of Harriet Tubman and the Civil War. |
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